Weekend Recap

Well, it only took me three days, but I'm finally getting around to posting about our weekend. And it although it was full--it was great. I'm totally okay with weekends where we have a lot to do and get a lot done; what I dislike are the weekends where all of those events are on a set time frame. We only had one thing this weekend that was at a specific time; the rest we could amble around and squeeze in wherever we wanted. And because pictures are more fun than my blabbing on, I'll let the pictures do the talking.

We decided to take a little getaway to Sioux City this weekend. It's only an hour south of us, but it was nice just to get away and not have to worry about anything

We ventured to a sushi bar for dinner. I was a pretty picky eater growing up, and although I've gotten significantly better, I'm still not the most adventurous eater. So dinner...

...was a little dicy. I've had the California rolls and other maki rolls (not pictured) before, but all that fish stuff? A little out of my comfort zone. But, I was a good sport and tried it all, and even ended up liking a few pieces (including, surprisingly, the eel--the darkest piece to the far right)

Part of the reason for going was that we had tickets for the symphony. It was the first time Darrell or I had been to a real symphony performance, and we enjoyed it quite a bit. And the building was beautiful--if you ever get the chance to go to something in the Orpheum in Sioux City, you should go just for the decor

One of my favorite parts about the trip was that our hotel was connected to the Orpheum through a series of skywalks! Skywalks are awesome. And even though the weather has been pretty mild lately, it was still nice to enjoy the exercise of walking there and back without dealing with any of the elements. Plus....

...there were some wicked cool things to walk through in the skywalks. Like these really cool mirrors. Or part of a museum. Totally awesome.

I would like to do the trip again sometime when I'm not feeling under the weather (or when we remember our suits so we can enjoy the hot tub...), but it was still a great trip. And because Sioux City is so close, we were able to get home on Sunday in time to do this:

Movie marathon baby! Darrell's been dying to get me to watch these movies forever, but I kept refusing because I wanted to watch them all at once, and we rarely have time for that. But since the Vikings played (poorly) on Monday night, plus the fact that my parents were out of town, we were left with no plans on Sunday. Normally I would have been anxious to get some work done around the house--but feeling sick was the perfect reason to curl up on the couch and enjoy these movies. I will say that I felt like there were some unnecessarily long fight/chase scenes, so even though the "plot" was only about 60 minutes in length the movies were still closer to 90 minutes overall.... But they were all still pretty good. Especially for "guy" movies. And now we can cross it off our 101 in 1001 list!